- Hardcover: 456 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; First edition (31 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340688831
- ISBN-13: 978-0340688830
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.3 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,120,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Award winning novelist Elizabeth George (A Great Deliverance, Well-Schooled in Murder) returns with In Pursuit of a Proper Sinner, her 10th instalment in the Lynley-Havers series. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley has his work cut out for him: two mutilated corpses are found in a prehistoric stone circle in Derbyshire. One is the daughter of Lynley's former mentor Andy Maiden.
What's more, the Inspector's partner Barbara Havers has been suspended and is facing criminal charges of assault and attempted murder. Was Havers really saving a drowning child or was she disobeying orders? Why then did she fire a rifle at the Detective Chief Inspector and how could Lynley ethically justify it? As he grapples with the ramifications of his partner's radical insubordination, the case in Derbyshire grows in daunting complexity.
Once again, Elizabeth George delivers an intricately woven plot which efficiently navigates the reader through the book's 566 pages. Along the way, readers will be introduced to a delightful cast of supporting characters, from the dowdy Phoebe who finds the first gory cadaver to the stately Andy Maiden: "His face was drawn with exhaustion, and his growth of peppery whiskers fanned out from his moustache and shadowed his cheeks". And, of course, fans will get an eyeful of George's trademark; her vivid descriptions of death: "At her feet, a young man lay curled like a foetus, dressed head-to-toe in nothing but black, with that same colour puckering burnt flesh from eye to jaw on one side of his face". --Rebekah Warren
Entertainment Weekly on Deception
‘Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre.'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In Pusuit of The proper sinner represents return to form for George, although she runs the risk at this point of being over fond of her hero, just as Sayers was of Peter Wimsey. Lynley spends rather too much of his time contemplating his navel rather than contemplating the crime, but the novel is good nonetheless; her last book missed his quirky Englishness (as we all have butlers who love musicals and a panchent for partners who love us not in the begnning but fall headlong in the end) and great suits. Lynley is a little overindulged but the book has some real strengths.
Firstly it has a cracking plot and is perhaps the toughest puzzle she has written. Secondly it has more three dimensional women of the kind George excels at. Laslty it is familiar without being irritating as deception on his mind was. I hope that George takes Lynley further, as leaving him out of her last novel and relying on the charicatured and doomed Havers was a mistake. A new partner who isnt a working class woman or a black sterotypical gangster would be of benefit now.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
into Elizabeth George. I had been encouraged to read her books previously, but after TVs demolition of Inspector Linley and Co (How come in the books he has blonde hair?)I was apprehensive. What a mistake! I could not put this down, yes it is long, but every sentence keeps you gripped. I had no idea who the killer was until the moment you are supposed to find out and, other than Robert Goddard, so many authers fail to keep the killers id anonymous. I wanted to scream at Barbara Havers to toe the line, but I'm glad she had the courage of her convictions! I can't wait for the next one. Highly recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have ploughed through all the Lynley titles, as the plots are quite ingenious, but the characterisations of the main protagonists are utterly unbelievable! I also hoped that Ms George's tin ear for the English vernacular would improve, alas, it has not. The books read as though they have been translated from a foreign language by someone who, equally, does not have English as their first language. Who refers to people being "chopped"? Getting the chop, yes, but that means sacked, terminated etc. Even little things such as character's names are incongruously inappropriate. A good editor should surely pick up these inconsistencies. Sadly, I have found it impossible to concentrate on the (admittedly) convoluted plotting as a result.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
In pursuit of the Proper Sinner. - E. George.
Another mystery from this great author. Arrived in
the time it was notified and in very good order.
the time it was notified and in very good order.
Published 15 months ago by Maggiemay
Intricate plot with some slippages
After the last couple of books in this series, George returns to the Havers/Lynley partnership, now turned into a threesome with Winston Nkata. Read more
Published on 2 April 2010 by Roman Clodia
Short on laughs
I usually like the high-class trashiness of Elizabeth George's writing, and the ludicrousness of the plots, but this one disappoints. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2003 by "christinekendell"
Good plot but poor grasp of the English way of life
I like this book but the poor grasp of the English way of life is quite unbelieveable -try as I will I cannot believe an Assistant Commissioner would call a DS 'a slag' for... Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2000
Good plot, but PLEASE learn English as the English speak it!
I have read some, but not all, of Elizabeth George's previous books. In all cases I have found the plots intriguing and gripping, but find that an American can not truely describe... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2000
Brilliant
This is a really gripping read.I thoroughly recommend it!Couldn't put it down.
Published on 16 Aug 2000 by sally.bennett@virgin.net
Intriguing but not one of her best
This is the latest in a series of quite long stories written now in an English detective tradition by an American. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2000
A great twisty mystery
This was the first book by Elizabeth George that I had read so I wasn't sure what to expect. At first I thought her writing style was a little stilted, and it sometimes sounded... Read more
Published on 8 July 2000
Very disappointing
I have enjoyed her books in the past but this was tedious in the extreme. I usually pass on thrillers/detective novels but I would recommend this to no-one.
Published on 28 Jun 2000
An excellent story, but start at the beginning!
Apart from a rather dubious acceptance by Lynley at one stage that really doesn't ring true to his character, this is an excellent book and one of Elizabeth George's best. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2000 by Mr. D. J. Carr
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